I didn't know today was Donald Trump's CNN showcase...
...until I saw Victor Shi say on Twitter:
Jared Yates Sexton:
It shouldn't be surprising. It was thoroughly predictable. You can imagine what it was like. But here's a brief description from HuffPost:
"Moderator Kaitlan Collins attempted to rein in Trump as he stood by his denial of the results from the 2020 presidential election, rejected the lawsuit that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the writer E. Jean Carroll, and defended his decision to take classified documents to Florida after his presidency.
But Collins struggled to fact-check the former president in real-time, and many sharply criticized CNN for putting Trump on-air at all. At one point, Trump called Collins a 'nasty person' as she tried to get an answer to a question."
He also bragged: “I was able to terminate Roe v. Wade,” referring to a 2022 Supreme Court decision.
He brought this up again on January 10, 2024 in his Fox News counterprogramming of the final GOP candidates' debate: "[For] 54 years, they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it. And I’m proud to have done it." (HuffPost) (The final GOP primary debate featured Haley and DeSantis. Trump did not participate in any of the GOP debates.)
Donald Trump Is Plotting National 16-Week Abortion Ban: Report: The former president denied the report from The New York Times that he's discussed supporting a 16-week federal abortion ban. Alanna Vagianos, HuffPost, Feb 16, 2024
Nikki Haley sides with Alabama Supreme Court on IVF ruling: 'Embryos, to me, are babies' The Alabama court's recent ruling raised concerns among doctors and patients that classifying embryos as children could restrict in-vitro fertilization. Ali Vitali and Alex Rhoades. NBC. Feb. 21, 2024
"Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by [a] self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.
Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.
“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”
— Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism. Christopher Mathias. HuffPost, Feb 22, 2024
Republicans were totally unprepared for this:
Tommy Tuberville On Alabama Deeming Embryos Children: Great! Wait, Bad!: In the span of three minutes, the GOP senator said he was “all for it,” didn’t agree with it, supports IVF and just needs to read the bill. (There is no bill.) Jennifer Bendery, HuffPost, Feb 22, 2024
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